OAuth is cool but developing with OAuth can be a pain. Inspired by curl and Hurl.it (featured on Episode 0.1.5 with Leah Culver), the Twitter team has realeased a couple of tools to make developing with the Twitter OAuth API much easier.

Twurl is a Ruby gem from Marcel Molina that lets you make requests to the Twitter OAuth API from the console. To begin install the gem:

sudo gem install twurl

Then from the command line (not the Ruby console) you can authorize twurl using your API keys: